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DateThu, 06 Oct 2005 10:09:29 +0530
FromKarthik Sarangan <>
SubjectRe: Using DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O -> max_sectors
Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> no it's a property of the hardware and as such the DRIVER has to set it.
> Not all hw can deal with really big sizes, so the driver is supposed to
> set what the hw is capable of.
> 
so I need to send some ioctl to the driver to set the transfer size or 
find something in the /proc/scsi area, isn't it?
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